December 10, 2017

Hillary, Obama, and their operatives in the FBI nearly got away with the greatest criminal scam in U.S. History as the latest facts have begun to unravel their long planned out scheme.

When Hillary assumed the Secretary of State position after Obama won the presidency, her main goal was positioning herself to make sure she would become the Democrat nominee following Obama to the White House. Nothing was going to get in her way.

She illegally set up a private server so no one could find out about her corrupt scheme. The Clintons then set up the Clinton Foundation as a front for charity donations; but largely used to pay off operatives and lay the ground work for a well organized and financed campaign.

The Clinton Foundation was funded through bribery, extortion, racketeering, money laundering, and treasonous acts by using her position for “pay to play” deals which included selling American uranium to a Canadian investor, who sold it to a Russian company, Uranium One. The Russians in turn gave millions to the Clinton Foundation.

Obama, knowing his legacy depended on Hillary’s win, removed restriction that allowed the sale to happen. Hillary then approved the sale during the time Robert Mueller, who is now Special Counsel to investigate Donald Trump, was in charge of the FBI. An FBI informant attempted to reveal the treasonous activity and had a gag order place of him by Mueller and Obama.

As Hillary left the Secretary of State position to formally run for president, she illegally took over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to assure her win over Bernie Sanders, according the Donna Brazile, who is currently in charge of the DNC.

The fix was in before Wikileaks revealed Hillary’s scheme and crimes through emails from her campaign manager, John Podesta, and the DNC. It was thought Seth Conrad Rich, a staffer for the Democrat party and a supporter for Bernie Sanders, was the leaker to Wikileaks before he was murdered, which DC police were told not to investigate.

Since it was revealed that Hillary used an illegal server containing classified information, the FBI was forced to investigate; but James Comey, appointed by Obama, drafted a letter to exonerate Hillary months before Hillary was interviewed while the investigation was incomplete.

Peter Strzok, an FBI agent on Mueller’s team to investigate Trump, was a supporter of Hillary and interviewed her without putting her under oath. Strzok then changed Comey’s letter from “gross negligence” to “extremely careless” as cause not to charge Hillary. There were also no obstruction of justice charges for 33,000 deleted emails or smashed cell phones under supeana.

Complicating matters for Comey was Attorney General Loretta Lynch private meeting with Bill Clinton prior to the interview of Hillary and classified material in possession of Anthony Wiener, who was sexting a 15 year old girl while married to Huba Abedin, Hillary’s deputy chief of staff.

To assure Trump’s loss, Hillary Clinton and the DNC actually colluded with the Russians, paying $9 million to Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS to get dirt on Trump to ruin his candidacy through a British spy named Christopher Steele, who authored the fake story of Trump-Russian dossier.

Obama’s Justice Department and the FBI, through Strzok, used the fabricated information provided through Fusion GPS as a means to seek a warrant to wiretap and investigate Trump and unlawfully unmask American citizens related to the Trump campaign, including Gen. Michael Flynn, before and after the election.

When Trump won the presidency, he fired Comey as Democrats painted a false narrative of Trump-Russian collusion.

With the FBI entangled in their own criminal conspiracy of collusion with the DNC, Deputy Attorney General, Rob Rosenstein, who worked with FBI Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe ordered a Special Counsel headed by former FBI Director Robert Mueller to take out Trump, granting him lot of leeway to investigate anything related to Trump to support impeachment.

McCabe, who was the official in charge of investigating the emails of Hillary’s private server, received $500,000 donated by the Clintons to Jill McCabe, his wife, who was running for the State Senate in Virginia.

Mueller put his team together of Hillary supporters and donors including Strzok, who had shared thousands of anti-Trump text messages with a colleague and mistress, who also working with Mueller.

It was later revealed that Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official under Rosenstein, met with Simpson and Steele during the 2016 campaign. Rosenstein failed to disclose this to congress before it was revealed by an investigative reporter.

Another Mueller deputy, Andrew Weissmann, who donated six times to Obama’s presidential campaign as well as the DNC, attended Hillary’s election night party. He also praised outgoing acting Attorney General Sally Yates, after she was fired for refusing to defend President Trump’s travel ban.

Mueller hired Jeannie Rhee, who represented the Clinton Foundation and was the attorney for Obama’s national security advisor. She has also donated to the DNC, Obama, and Hillary.

Mueller hired James Quarles who has a long history of donating to Democrats from 1987 through 2016 and also donated to Hillary in 2016.

Mueller hired Michael Dreeben, who also donated to Obama and Hillary.

The Mueller team is the Democrat Dream Team of political patrician hacks set out to destroy and impeach Trump without exposing their own political agenda.

As Representative Jim Jordan stated, “If you kicked everybody off of Mueller’s team who was anti-Trump, I don’t think there would be anybody left.”

The FBI and Justice Department are suppose to be independent, objective, and fair; but when you have the internal corruption of the FBI conspiring to conceal crimes of Hillary, Obama, and the Democrats while attempting to impeach a president as their political opponent, you have the largest scam in U.S. History, the Democrat’s Watergate!

Frank Aquila is president of the South San Joaquin Republicans and author of the book, “Sarah Palin Out of Nowhere.” He can be emailed at mantecarepublicans@yahoo.com

October 31, 2017

We have all heard the Christmas fables of Santa, Rudolph, and Frosty; but there is another fable so often repeated that people actually believe it to be true. The phase “separation of church and state” has been routinely used by liberals and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is an organization established by self-proclaimed Communist Roger Baldwin, to “suppress” Christianity and the Judeo-Christian foundation and influence of America through a godless revolution that removes God from government and Christ from Christmas. This phrase is not even part of the U.S. Constitution. The phase “separation of church and state” was first written by President Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Baptist Association of Danbury in Connecticut. The founding fathers did not want a government run by a particular religion, as in the “Church of…

Christmas is a favorite holiday for most. It is a time of giving, and for Christians; it is a time to remember the birth of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. For others, Jesus Christ is offensive. Therefore, some individuals, businesses, or politicians, have decided to insert “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays” to not offend certain groups of people.

If we were to use the same concept for other holiday, should we change Veterans Day and Memorial Day to World Peace Day for those that don’t believe in war? Should we stop celebrating President Washington and President Lincolns’ birthday or change the name of our Independence Day on the 4th of July to a date of world influence to accommodate those that are here from another country to make it more inclusive?

Since atheists don’t believe in Jesus, should we go to a new calendar with the start of…

October 29, 2017

Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency, the Democrat party and liberal media have tried to blame Trump-Russian collusion. They were demanding a special counsel and pointed to a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer as “treason”; but new revelations show the real treason belongs to Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and our own FBI and Justice Department for their cover-up of real crimes.

Robert Mueller, the former Director of the FBI and Special Counsel appointed by the FBI to investigate Trump, will rush his judgment now that it has been revealed he was director during the time of a newly revealed scandal.

The Democrats and media are scrambling to twist the new revelations showing, in fact, it was Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) actually colluded with the Russians, paying $9 million to Fusion GPS to get dirt on Trump to ruin his candidacy through a British spy named Christopher Steele by way of the Russians. Fusion GPS is attempting to conceal their financial records while Democrats and the media are referring this “old news” and “opposition research” ignoring laws broken. And of course, the DNC and Hillary campaign deny any knowledge of the financial transaction.

Obama’s Justice Department and the FBI used the fabricated information provided through Fusion GPS as a means to seek a warrant to wiretap and investigate Trump and unlawfully unmask American citizens related to the Trump campaign before and after the election.

Even though there has never been any Trump-Russia collusion, the picture painted by the Democrats and run by their surrogates in the media forced a special counsel of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to investigate Trump when the real investigation should have been on the Clintons and the DNC. Mueller then went on to hire several lawyers with ties to the DNC to investigate Trump.

Mueller, who hired many lawyers with ties to the DNC to investigate Trump, was FBI director when Hillary used her position as Secretary of State to sell 20 percent of America’s uranium to the Russians for millions donated to the Clinton Foundation and a half million given to Bill Clinton for a twenty minute speech. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial also questioned Mueller’s integrity citing, the “troubling question is whether the FBI played a role” in aiding a “Russian disinformation campaign.”

When the FBI uncovered this plot dating back to 2009 that involved bribery, extortion, blackmail, racketeering and money laundering, approved by the Obama Administration, an FBI informant, who has emails, documents, and personal records of the scandal, was placed on a gag order by the Obama Administration before the whistle blower was recently revealed to the Trump Administration. Mueller was FBI Director at the time and had to have known about this plot, scandal, and informant.

According to the informant’s attorney, “the Obama Justice Department threatened him with loss of freedom. They said they would bring a criminal case against him for violating the NDA.” This seems like Russian style politics from the Obama Administration against an American citizen to silence a whistle blower.

This is also the same Obama Justice Department that refused to provide information of 3,000 guns sold to Mexican drug cartels that were used to kill two U.S. Border Patrol Agents and refused to prosecute those in the IRS who targeted conservative organizations, and then destroyed their computer servers.

Also entangled in the issue is that fired FBI Director James Comey, who is friends with Mueller, wrote a draft to drop charges against Hillary two month before interviewing her and her associates regarding her illegal server, which were destroyed by Hillary including her cell phones and blackberries that were smashed with hammers.

Washington is corrupt when those who work to served and bring justice, blindly ignore the fire of the real criminals while searching for the smoke of their enemies.

Frank Aquila is president of the South San Joaquin Republicans and author of the book, “Sarah Palin Out of Nowhere.” He can be emailed at mantecarepublicans@yahoo.com

September 28, 2017

The American flag is a symbol of freedom and our National Anthem is the song of freedom recognizing those who fought and died for our freedom. It is proudly sung before ceremonies and sporting events to bring all Americans together regardless of their differences of religion, race, status, or political view. The sports arena has always been one place all Americans were allowed to come together to root for their team.

Unfortunately, the NFL has changed everything by the ignorance of Commissioner Roger Goodell when he allowed Colin Kapernick to protest the National Anthem and the American Flag in 2016 in his protest of “police brutality.” He disrespectfully wore socks symbolizing police as pigs. Goodell and others ignorantly call it free speech; but Goodell said, “No” to the Dallas Cowboys who inquired to wear a symbol on their uniform honoring police officers murdered in Dallas. Goodell also fined Quarterback Robert Griffin III (RG3) for wearing non-approved clothing forcing RG3 to remove his “Know Jesus, Know Peace” shirt and turn it inside out.

While Goodell enforces some rules, he is not enforcing the NFL League Rule book pages A62-63 pertaining to the National Anthem which states, “The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem.””During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in the left hand, and refrain from talking.” “Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or, the forfeiture of draft choice(s).

Goodell is the son of a liberal New York Senator and he ignored the NFL Rule book, while allowing players to bring their politics to the stadium of “racial injustice.”

This is not about “Freedom of Speech” since the NFL is a business. Just as the average citizens are not allowed to engage in political protests or political activity while working, neither is the NFL. Once a player walks onto the field, he is being paid for his services.

These players who exhort their political views in protest at the same time expecting to get paid wealthy checks that America provided them are hypocrites. If these NFL players feel the need to protest, don’t show up on game day, make your statement, and don’t get paid. Then you won’t be hypocrites and you can go find a venue and lead your own movement.

Professional athletes are supposed to be examples for the youth of America. These NFL players are a disgrace, except for some few exceptions. One exception is Pittsburg Steelers’ Alejandro Villanueva, who as an ex- Army Ranger broke away from his team to stand solo in recognition of flag and country. Afterward, sales of his jersey soared to number one, while his coach criticized his patriotism.

I have shut off the NFL network and I will no longer attend any game where a player feels he can make a divisive political statement regardless of the sport. I have better things to do than to watch political football.

The only player that should kneel are those players who meet at midfield following each football game to join together, kneel, and pray to Jesus.

These are the real players. They are the ones that stand for the flag and kneel for the cross.

Frank Aquila is president of the South San Joaquin Republicans and author of the book, “Sarah Palin Out of Nowhere.” He can be emailed at mantecarepublicans@yahoo.com

September 24, 2017

America is in danger and faces a real threat of a terrifying nuclear bomb. North Korea has the capability of firing an ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) attached with a nuclear war head with the ability to hit the United States, due to an agreement in 1994. President Bill Clinton arranged $4 billion in energy aid to North Korea for a commitment from North Korea to freeze and dismantle their Nuclear Weapon Development Program. Essentially, the US gave money to North Korea on a promise with no verification. Clinton said in 1994, “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world.” Instead, North Korea pocketed billions of American tax dollars to expedite the same nuclear program they promised to dismantle.

Now President Trump has a dilemma to deal with. As time passes, North Korea continues to development more long range capabilities. If Trump attacks North Korea to prevent an attack on America, he will be blamed for the risk of massive civilian lives lost in North Korea or potentially an attack on South Korea or Japan. Guam and Hawaii as well as targets along Washington, Oregon, and California are within reach of the nuclear ICBM. However, if Trump does not attack, North Korea’s technology will continue to provide them many more options as they gain advanced nuclear weapon technology, including a nuclear submarine capable of striking a number of targets.

The unfortunate deal by President Clinton with North Korea is now mirrored by the same deal President Obama made with Iran.

Robert Kauffman, professor of public policy at Pepperdine University stated, “(President) Obama’s feckless nuclear deal (with Iran) is the sequel.” “We have lifted sanctions on Iran, infusing that tottering economy with much-needed cash, in exchange for an agreement that enables Iran to cross the nuclear threshold.” He continued that we cannot “enforce the agreement even if we detect unambiguous violation because enforcement depends on the U.N. Security Council.

America and its citizens are in danger since President Clinton and Obama both allowed North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Like North Korea is the threat of today, Iran will be the threat of tomorrow.

Frank Aquila is president of the South San Joaquin Republicans and author of the book, “Sarah Palin Out of Nowhere.” He can be emailed at mantecarepublicans@yahoo.com

August 17, 2017

Martin Luther King stated, “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” No race is superior to another; but the Democrat party has tried to link President Trump and his supporters to the KKK without looking into their own mirror and history.

KKK Grand Wizard William Quigg donated and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in March 2016 while Trump has disavowed any ties to the KKK. Trump stated all organizations of hate are unacceptable. This includes the KKK, Antifa, or Black Lives Matter, which uses their name as a mask to incite violence with political and racial tension.

Let’s look at the facts of the KKK.

The Democrat party created the KKK to fight against equal rights for blacks after Republican President Abraham Lincoln won the Civil War. No Democrat voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to blacks. The KKK was honored at every Democrat National Convention from 1868 through the 1930’s.

Several prominent Democrats were KKK members including President Harry Truman; Hugo Black, who was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Supreme Court from 1937-1971.

Democrat Majority Leader, Robert Byrd, who was not only a KKK member; but a Grand Keagle, a recruiter for the KKK signed up members for $10 a head. He joined because it “offered excitement,” and because the Klan was an effective force in “promoting American values.” He stated in a letter, “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth…. in every state in the nation.” Byrd became the Democrat leader of the U.S. Senate and served from 1951-2010 and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

In the 1960’s Martin Luther King, a Republican, fought against the Democrats, ultimately sacrificing his life for his dream of equality. It was Republicans and a black Republican by the name of A. Phillip Randolph, who organized King’s March on Washington in 1963, which was opposed by Democrat President John F. Kennedy, who used the FBI to target King while Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Democrat, used wiretapping to spy on Martin Luther King.

Remember Governor George Wallace? Democrat. Bull Connor? Democrat. They supported slavery and were the ones turning water hoses and dogs on black protesters in the 1960s

Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson, who as a senator, also fought against the Civil Rights Act in 1957, was also known as a racist. Yet, he realized “negroes” “were getting pretty uppity these days.” LBJ continued, “Now, we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.” After Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, he stated to two governors on Air Force One, “I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

As recently as the 1980s, Senator Ernest Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina, publicly referred to blacks as “darkies” and Hispanics as “wetbacks” without suffering any punishment from his party.

In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed into law Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. However, in 1985, then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, Democrat, signed Act 985 into law, making the birthdates of Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee, the general who led the Civil War Confederate Army, state holidays on the same day in Arkansas.

On May 5, 1993, Clinton praised ex-Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright as “my mentor,” as he gave the nation’s highest civilian award – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – to a man who spent the vast majority of his public career and life as a proud segregationist, who voted against the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts.

I have no problem placing Civil War monuments in a Civil War museum; but there should not be a double standard. Monuments of racists Democrats should be also be taken down and placed in their own Racist Democrat Museum.

Frank Aquila is president of the South San Joaquin Republicans and author of the book, “Sarah Palin Out of Nowhere”. He can be emailed at mantecarepublicans@yahoo.com

June 23, 2017

The Democrats and their associates in the media have been trying desperately to paint a picture of Russian collusion with Trump during the election to set grounds for impeachment.

Senator Marco Rubio paraphrased a quote from Donald Trump to former FBI Director James Comey stating, “Can you please tell the American people what these leaders in congress already know, what you already know, what you told me three times that I am not personally under investigation.” Comey agreed with the paraphrase replying, “Yes sir” confirming that Trump was not under investigation.

Rubio continued to ask Comey, “Did you ever wonder why of all the things in this investigation, the only thing that has never been leaked is the fact that the president was not personally under investigation, despite the fact that both Democrats and Republicans and the leadership of congress knew that and have known for weeks.” Comey replied, “I don’t know.”

Individual(s) left behind from the Obama administration have been anonymous sources spreading to the media “fake news” as well as feloniously unmasking Americans from intelligence surveillance, such as General Mike Flynn.

When Comey was asked about the report from the NSA, FBI, and CIA that concluded that there was “no evidence in our report” that member of the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians, Comey responded that the report was correct.

Despite no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, the media and Democrats continue to paint this picture even though Democrats are forced to admit they have no evidence of collusion.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who recommended the firing of Comey to Trump, then appointed Robert Mueller, a former FBI Director, to head a Special Counsel to oversee the FBI investigation into Russian election interference, including any potential links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Robert Mueller, who is supposed to conduct his investigation independently, who is a friend of Comey, has appointed “independent prosecutors” on his Special Counsel who are evidently biased against Trump.

The National Law Journal reported Mueller has hired Michael Dreeben, who donated to Obama in 2008 and Hillary Clinton in 2006.

Mueller hired Andrew Weissmann, who donated six times to Obama’s presidential campaign as well as the DNC in 2006.

Mueller hired Jeannie Rhee, who as recently as 2015 represented the Clinton Foundation to block FOIA requests relating to ties to the Department of State and racketeering. She has also donated to the DNC as well as the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2011 and Clinton’s campaign in 2015 and 2016.

Mueller also hired James Quarles who has a long history of donating to Democrats from 1987 through 2016 and also donated to Hillary in 2016.

A Special Counsel should be “independent” and include collusion between Hillary Clinton and the Russians for selling 20% of American uranium to the Russians for millions donated to the Clinton Foundation as well as hundreds of thousands Bill Clinton received for the Russians.

The Special Counsel should also look into Obama’s interference into the election in Israel when American tax dollars were given to the opposition party to influence the election against Benjamin Netanyahu.

Maybe the Special Counsel can investigate Obama’s Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, who told Comey to refer to Hillary Clinton’s email investigation only as a “mater.”

We should have a Special Counsel look into the murder of Seth Rich, who was the DNC leaker to Wikileaks.

In the end, this Special Counsel is filled with those who would rather lay the ground material against President Trump for their Democrat friends to begin an impeachment against him even though the real criminals were the ones the Special Counsel supported on the Democrat side.

Frank Aquila is the president of the South San Joaquin Republicans and author of the book, “Sarah Palin Out of Nowhere.” He can be emailed at mantecarepublicans@yahoo.com

May 19, 2017

Since the election of Donald Trump as president, Democrats have been trying to set the narrative that the Trump team colluded with the Russians to influence the election. The Democrats demanded a Special Counsel to look into these allegations to keep the narrative running and to place a dark cloud over Trump and the Republicans in their effort to persuade public opinion in order to win back Congress, the U.S. Senate, and ultimately the White House.

So far there has been no evidence of any ties between the Trump team and the Russians. James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has stated on May 12, 2017 that the NSA, FBI, CIA, and his office “had no evidence of such collusion.” Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein (CA), who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, stated that she hasn’t seen any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

While the Special Council seems like a “Witch Hunt” by Democrats delegitimize the Trump presidency, this is actually good for Trump. It puts the issue to rest and I suspect the result of the investigation will show there was no collusion, which is bad news for Democrats.

Trump and the Republicans should be calling for several other Special Counsels to investigate other criminal activity within the government including the illegal electronic surveillance by those in the Obama administration on the Trump team and those leaking such intelligence to the media. Several felonies were committed when individuals within the National Security Council, whom over sixty percent were appointed by Obama, illegally unmasked individuals within the Trump team violating their legal protection under privacy as American citizens and anonymously leaked those classified reports collected through a FISA warrant to the media. The media has used the private conversations between Russian Ambassadors as examples of collusion even though such conversations with ambassadors of various countries are normal. Feinstein admitted, “There are all kind of rumors around. There are newspaper stories, but that is not necessarily evidence.”

We should welcome Special Counsel to investigate collusion between Hillary Clinton and the Russians for selling 20% of American uranium to the Russians for the millions donated to the Clinton Foundation as well as the hundreds of thousands Bill Clinton received from the Russians in speaking fees.

We should have a Special Counsel for the $500,000 donated by the Clintons to Jill McCabe, who was running for the State Senate and is the wife of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was the official in charge of investigating the emails of Hillary’s private server. Can we say unethical and conflict of interest?

We should have a Special Counsel for Hillary’s private server with the 33,000 email and classified material leaked along with the private meeting of Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton on the tarmac of an Arizona airport. More conflict of interest.

We should have a Special Counsel for the murder of Seth Rich, who was the DNC leaker to Wikileaks.

We should have a Special Counsel for lies and cover-up of the murders in Benghazi. We should have a Special Counsel for the IRS scandal of targeting conservative organizations with the cover-up of destroying the email servers. We should have a Special Counsel for President Obama’s surveillance of Republican presidential candidates including Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. We should have a Special Counsel for the deaths of Veterans at the VA hospital during the Obama administration. We should have a Special Counsel for the deception of the Iran deal and the billions given to them from Obama. We should have a Special Counsel for Fast and Furious when the Obama administration sold weapons to the Mexican drug cartels that were used to kill two border patrol agents.

Special Counsels are good and there should be a lot of government people held responsible, including jail. While the Special Counsel against Trump smells of a “Witch Hunt” based on trumped up information, this will put the issue to rest; but at the same time, other Special Counsels against the real criminals in Washington is another way to “Drain the Swamp.”

May 8, 2017

California drivers pay more for gasoline than any other state. Yet, they will be paying even more as Governor Jerry Brown and the Democrats approved another 12 cents per gallon tax on the people including an increase in DMV fees as well as a $100 annual fee on zero-emission vehicles as part of their latest money grab from the people of California.

State Democrats and Brown claim the $52 billion in taxes will fix the roads right? Not so fast. We have been down that road before with an increase in gas tax for the roads and where did that lead us? It is another game of switch-a-roo and moving the money around as they choose. They moved money from one area of the state budget and leave another area short to justify their reasons for a tax increase. Surely Brown and the Democrats would not tell the people the money was needed to fund Brown’s choo choo or that the state is spending billions to supply multiple agencies in supporting and funding programs for illegal aliens. Diverting road tax funds from the state budget creates a need where they can justify creating the largest transportation tax in the state’s history. It is all built on a lie to the people.

Only 60 percent will actually go to road projects. The first billion will fund high speed rail, assumed by some to ultimately cost $200 billion, and most of the people will never use it. Millions more will be spent on park restroom maintenance, corridors to improve animal travel, as well as millions to encourage people to visit state parks. Another billion will be used on bike lanes, which means less lanes for traffic, and $435 million plus on an unneeded light rail system.

The people of California will pay for the lies by our misleading state representatives though a higher gas tax and fees that doesn’t carry an expiration date. This tax increase is forever. These taxes and fees will be added to our already enormous transportation cost when California drivers already pay for a “designer” gasoline that no other state uses, adding another 12 cents per gallon. These taxes add up when you add a 39 cent California excise tax with a 10 cent cap and trade fee tax collapsed into the gas price with the .18 cents federal excise taxes and not to mention the 30 to 43 cents per gallon cost each person pays in California sales tax. This has become taxation upon taxation. The additional hidden cost will be passed down to the consumer a hidden tax as additional fees to pay for the cost of shipping at the store.

In the end, it will be the tax-paying people of California that will be hit the hardest while the Democrats and Governor Brown have given “pot holes” a whole new meaning as they continue to use and mislead the people with smoke and mirrors. Maybe they should be more concern with the people of California than making it a sanctuary state. California has a taxation problem only because the Democrats have a mismanagement problem.

Frank Aquila is president of the South San Joaquin Republicans and author of the book, “Sarah Palin Out of Nowhere.” He can be emailed at mantecarepublicans@yahoo.com